George Antheil Quotes
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I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.
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There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.
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Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
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It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life
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There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
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Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.
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Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.
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He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.
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My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
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In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
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What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts.
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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
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The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.
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I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
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With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.
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Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
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Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
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It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.
